Re: Let's talk about langages (Advice/Help)

From: Richard (this_at_is.invalid)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:49:58 -0400

"Captain!" <SpammersMustDie@now.net> wrote in message
news:EDRTc.14550$X12.11174@edtnps84...

> countries like the united states are full of immigrants who
> teach their native languages to students wishing to learn them.
> this has got to be one of the most pathetic america bashing
> reasons i have ever seen.

That sounds nice in theory but in the US and Canada, when schools look for
teachers, formal education is required while ability is only an added bonus.
A recent French literature graduate from the University of <insert your
favourite mid-western state here> has a better chance of becoming a French
teacher in the US than a Frenchman (or a Quebecois, Haitian, Algerian, etc.)
despite the fact that the grad might not even speak French fluently.

Not even in Quebec - where 80% of the population is francophone - is this
rule broken. More often than not, French teachers are francophones because
the demographics facilitate finding people with both education and ability
but it happens that non-francophones with proper education apply and get
hired.

Richard

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